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C.A. Lejeune

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “The exhibition of scientific gadgets will delight the inquiring mind, and the account of planetary intentions proves highly reassuring. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Gaslight (1944) 94% EDIT “It is a fierce, Victorian period piece; deliberately played for horror and handsome in a rich and stuffy way.” – Observer (UK) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Beaver Valley (1950) EDIT “Beaver Valley is a little beauty... It is drawn direct from life, but composed directly for the cinema. The skill and innocence that once went into the presentation of cartoon animals have been applied, but with a new vigor, but without the new vulgarity.” – Observer (UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “Alice in Wonderland is a far less stimulating achievement, except in the sense that it may drive lovers of Lewis Carroll to frenzy, but let it be said at once that there are some delightful things in it. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “It isn't a very good picture.” – Observer (UK) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “Most of the pleasure is due to the accuracy of Judy Holliday, in the part she made famous on Broadway.” – Observer (UK) Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “When Chaplin is complex he is not true to himself. When we admire his complexities we are not true to him. To acclaim The Gold Rush among his finest work would be to confess a misunderstanding of the very qualities that have made Chaplin fine.” – Guardian Jun 24, 2025 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “No one, of course, can question [Cagney's] capacity to deal with this harsh sort of material, but he has learnt to do so much better things in the intervening years that a subject unpleasantly ugly in itself... seems a poor choice for him.” – Observer (UK) Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “It is outrageous comedy, of course, but the observations of detail and character are so true, the sense of a familiar place so sharp, that few will resent the gusto with which the outrage is perpetrated. ” – Observer (UK) Apr 17, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “The unmistakable mark of the craftsman is there all the time, and here and there some of the smaller characters stand out like details in an Old Master. The performance of Olive Carey, for instance... remains in the memory.” – Observer (UK) Mar 22, 2024 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% EDIT “The worst one can say about it is that it may be in rather poor taste. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 2, 2024 Full Review State Fair (1933) 100% EDIT “The story has all the virtues of a national viewpoint, and the detail work of the fair scenes is honest and sincere. Henry King's direction is a marvel of intelligent compensation, and the smaller parts are well played. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 10, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “Into the conventional movement of the costume romance [Fairbanks] has brought the velvet movements of a trained athlete, leaping, climbing, sliding, diving through the clear water.” – Guardian Mar 22, 2023 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “The whole picture of one of those refined, middle-class pictures which Mr. Goldwyn does so well. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes left no impression on me. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “The director has shown already, in The Wages of Fear, how splendidly he can manipulate tricks of suspense and shock, and if in the present case these tricks are used in the telling of a tale of smaller size, they are... no less effective.” – Observer (UK) Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “I can only suggest that much effort and money might have been saved by borrowing Mitzi Green from Paramount to play all the parts. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 17, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “Its style may have, and has, a special charm for connoisseurs, but the whole affair is so gay, the playing of Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and the rest of the cast, so infectious, that it should engage the toughest and most miscellaneous audience.” – Observer (UK) Dec 29, 2022 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “It has more faults than any earlier Disney cartoon... Sometimes it is, frankly, badly drawn. But I think it will give more people more pleasure of a simple kind than any other film of its generation.” – Observer (UK) Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “What picture-goers in this country should not miss, by any clouding or exacerbating of the sympathies, is a very lovely piece of technical work. If there is a defter film from Hollywood this year, I am eagerly awaiting it.” – Observer (UK) Nov 16, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “It is only a modest film, a mere thriller, but its director, John Huston, has taken such pains with it, and its players have given such able performances that The Maltese Falcon satisfies one more completely than many far more ambitious pictures.” – Observer (UK) Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “The film is simply a Technicolor diary of the Smiths' goings-on during one busy summer, autumn, and winter. Can such a trivial record make an entertaining picture? Astonishingly enough, it can.” – Observer (UK) Nov 10, 2022 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “A fantastic nightmare from America about an island of prehistoric beasts and an ape fifty feet high.” – Observer (UK) Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “James Stewart, as Mr. Smith, at last gets the part he has earned by years of hard work and unfulfilled promise. [The film] runs for two hours and eleven minutes, and is the only film of that length I know that left me surprised and sorry when it was done.” – Observer (UK) Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “With Ernst Lubitsch directing, the film has a certain cunning sleight-of-hand, a character in its quaintness.” – Observer (UK) Nov 7, 2022 Full Review
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